Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning
Package: lintian
Version: 2.1.0
Severity: normal
Hello.
Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends'
warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives
in case of data-only packages, which have no 'Depends' field at all.
And I can't fix this warnings, because putting
'Depends: ${misc:Depends}' will in 99% of my cases result in empty
'Depends:' line which is Policy violation. I guess this is archive-wide
issue, so I am waiting for advice from you (I can just override false
positives in all my packages, but I am not very happy with this solution.)
Regards,
Eugene.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
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